Kim L. Jones is a 30-year intelligence, security, and risk management professional with progressive experience in all facets of information security to include strategy; governance and compliance; executive leadership; physical security; risk mitigation and business continuity planning. Jones has held Chief Security Officer and Chief Information Security Officer positions in the financial services, manufacturing and business outsourcing industries. He currently holds the CISM and CISSP Certifications.​ He is a professor of practice in the School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences and the director of the Cybersecurity Education Consortium in the New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University, which was created with the goal of addressing the growing talent gap in the cybersecurity sector.